The Great FLOOD - Plan B Terraform - Ep 7 - Game Release TODAY! -

Growing and Expanding in Plan B Terraform.
Game is 10$, But right now its on Sale for 8.99 USD on Steam
Game: store.steampowered.com/app/18...
Description: Terraform a lifeless rock into a lush and habitable world. Build trucks, trains and sprawling factories on an enormous hexagonal planet. Grow its population to millions. Enjoy a dynamic simulation of atmosphere, temperature, water and forests.
Thank you Dev's for the key!
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Hope you enjoy, let me know what you thought down below!
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[@bitbucketcynic]

The game needs some sort of elevation map feature to warn you what parts of the planet are going to end up at the bottom of oceans, so you can either avoid ever building there, or exhaust resources that are going to be inundated first, move the infrastructure once it's been fully exploited, and just let it drown.

[@zachsletsplays]

Yes it is in need of a elevation map for sure! Someone had said if not that at least let up chose where the towns are going to be and that would be nice too!

[@shadowcheets]

I hit this problem yesterday and made the same mistake. The lake is downhill, so blocking the river leading into it will just flood everything uphill (your city, in this case). You want to put a wall on the other side of your city (uphill) that diverts the water around your city and then back to its natural path towards the lake. In theory. The problem is terrain isn't a straight slope. It has hills that you change where you have to dam the river. And right now, it's basically impossible to tell where elevation changes, or where the source of a river actually is unless you wait until it's big enough that your entire city is already flooded anyway. :(

[@zachsletsplays]

That is some great info Thank! I'm hoping i find a way around it but i guess we will see!

[@andvik84]

Rivers don't flow from the (beginning) ocean, too the mountains. It's the other way around.

[@zachsletsplays]

O okay that is good to know and makes sense when I think about it.. Thanks for the info!

[@andvik84]

@@zachsletsplays don't quote me on that tho, but that was the first thing I thought when you drowned your city :)

[@zachsletsplays]

@@andvik84 worth a shot at this point haha

[@SubLordHawk]

It fills from the lowest point, so the rivers really do spread up to the mountains. Dev has said the water is something that needs to be worked on, as it's rather... hit and miss.

[@zachsletsplays]

@@SubLordHawk Good to know! thanks. We will have to see how it turns out when we get there..

[@uryriseordie]

Hi! been enjoying a lot this series, I really like how chill you talk and how you learn what is the best way to do things! looking forward for more episodes or for a new series of the game :) already bought the game but I didn't start playing yet!

[@zachsletsplays]

Awesome! I hope to have a new episode up for it on Saturday, but it is the start of a new series so what it is has been covered on my last series we just move a lot faster in getting things unlocked.. Glad you are enjoying it so far!

[@TminusDoom]

29:20 maybe it's hard to grow stuff in -22C temps.

[@zachsletsplays]

Haha yeah it definitely is..

[@zachsletsplays]

Yes this was recorded before the game released, I unfortunately didn't have time before work to recorded a video this morning. The game is on sale for 8.99 USD on Steam!

[@anglosaxon5874]

Surely in -20C the water would be frozen? Just come across your episode today, so don't know much about the game.

[@zachsletsplays]

Yeah in any real-life situation it would be but not here haha!

[@aftha330]

It's funny because I've came to KZbin to search the same issue about the water flowing through the walls. And I see you have the same problem. Lets hope it gets fixes any time soon.

[@zachsletsplays]

Yes indeed lets hope! Right now I don't think there is much we can do about the oceans, but Andreas Viktorsson mentioned that the rivers flow from the mountains so I'm kind of wondering if we block of the mountains would that work.. Ill have to try sometime

[@aftha330]

@@zachsletsplays I tried building a choke point between two mountain, on the rivers path. Sadly it did not work and the water managed to go trough. It even feels like it came from the ground, like its growing like weat. So yeah... at this point I'll let the game on the side of my steam library and wait for an update ^^

[@aftha330]

@@zachsletsplays I'm looking forward to see if you find any solution to this issue

[@zachsletsplays]

@@aftha330 Yeah ill have to find somehow to do it.

[@joecerone]

@@zachsletsplays You have to imagine that all land in a certain area is going to generate water, like its raining. That water has to go somewhere, and typically is going to create a river on it's way to an ocean/lake. I've had luck redirecting rivers upstream, I've also had luck creating layers of dams that redirect. The water is manageable, imo. There's also zero punishment for moving production, and your city will simply work around the water as well.

[@Tapecutter59]

Game slows down significantly as cities grow. I'm at lv17 (objective: 1M population). I'm up to 400k population and the game has slowed down to the point it's frustrating.

[@zachsletsplays]

Hmm that's to bad, I have not gotten anywhere close to that yet so I guess I will have to try and find something to do when that happens.. Nice job getting to 400k thought!

[@lethal6475]

I don't know why but I can't decide whether to buy this or not I'm not sure why its strange

[@zachsletsplays]

You can just wishlist it and let some updates come out for it and get it then.

[@jamesweible5357]

The only thing I can think of is to wrap a damn wall around your city and put water pumps inside the wall. All your stuff outside like your food facility, the sulfur mine, etc. would probably be lost since it's right at the origin of the water. The wall stopped flow into, but the water still sat there, so I think you might need a bunch of pumps get rid of it. On the bright side, you don't have a water shortage anymore. Not sure how the coding is done though, so pumps might not work. Worth a try though.

[@zachsletsplays]

To me it seemed like the water was still expanding in the city even with the wall. Like it has a "spring" of its own.. But yeah definitely no water shortage haha. I'll have to put those walls up a lot faster next time I have them to help mitigate this.

[@jamesweible5357]

@@zachsletsplays That's what I saw on the other series I watched as well. When the Dev was talking about it, it didn't seem to be a bug, but instead working as intended. Maybe those pumps really matter. He did say the dam walls were intended to block off rivers. I advised building a wall around your city because I was thinking that the seepage might go around the wall, then re-saturate the low lands. If there is nothing you can do about the flooding, then the dev really needs to allow the player to place their own towns. I've watched 5 or 6 series on this game and all of them had at least 1 and usually 2 cities in flood zones. The flooding starts at a certain temp also, so you should be able to raise temp to unlock the walls, then stop production of all greenhouse gases until you get your barrier set up.

[@jamesweible5357]

@@zachsletsplays @Nicolas Gadenne Is there a was to stop the water flow, or do you just need to focus on altitude from the beginning?

[@zachsletsplays]

@@jamesweible5357 That is a good idea and will probably do that in the next playthrough coming up!

[@jamesweible5357]

@@zachsletsplays looking forward to it!

[@tillymint7354]

Same thing has happened to me, makes no sense with the flooding. It's drowned all my deposits and production 😒

[@zachsletsplays]

Dang That sucks! Yeah hopefully it is something that is addressed soon!

[@Tapecutter59]

Same, However, stuff you have already built will continue to work underwater, but you can't build new stuff on flodded land.

[@zachsletsplays]

@@Tapecutter59 O nice, i thought that they stopped working all together so that's good to know!

[@robertcawley6136]

Will the pumping station not allow you to control the water?

[@zachsletsplays]

I honestly do not know yet, I will find out when we get there in the new series that I just started..

[@robertcawley6136]

@@zachsletsplays yea I saw it, can't wait for you to get back to the same spot and beyond, also I'm pretty sure you can have multiple supply centers to alleviate having 4 materials come right into the same spot. Great content though keep it up

[@zachsletsplays]

@@robertcawley6136 yeah i need to test the multiple supply centers out as that would change some things.

[@kidfrom1981]

I dont get the whole flooding. And how to mitigate it.